Martin Halla // applied microeconometrics
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Welcome to my website. I am an applied microeconometrician with main research interests in family, labor and health. I am also interested in different aspects of political economy and I work periodically on tax evasion. Recently I have found interest in using historical data from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
On this personal website you will find information on my research and teaching activities.
Here is a link to my Curriculum vitae.
Currently, my affiliations are:
Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) in Austria.
Head of the Institute of Economic Policy at JKU.
Permanent Scientific Consultant at the Austrian Public Health Institute (GÖG) in Vienna.
Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn.
Editorial work:
I am Co-Editor of Empirica. This is the official journal of the Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft (Austrian Economic Association). Please not that we solicit descriptive papers on current or unexplored topics. Better a good descriptive paper than a bad causal analysis!
Other activities:
I am member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP).
I am a member of three Standing Field Committees of of the Verein für Socialpolitik:
Latest publication:
"Paying Adolescents for Health Screenings Works" (with Gerald J. Pruckner and Thomas Schober), forthcoming in the American Journal of Health Economics.
Recent presentations:
Deaton: link
Essen Health Conference 2022: "Health of Elderly Parents, their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers". This paper was awarded the Best paper ward, 3rd place.
Keynote at NOeG 2020: "How Did Administrative Data Change Economic Research Output – A Descriptive Analysis"
Contact:
University of Linz , Department of Economics, Altenbergerstrasse 69, 4040 Linz, Austria, martin.halla@jku.at; my office is in the Keplergebäude in room K145C.
Elsewhere on the web:
Op-Eds & media coverage:
Österreichs fatale Corona-Bilanz (in Der Pragmaticus 07.12.22)
Die Gründe des Fachkräftemangels (in Der Pragmaticus, 07.10.22)
Regierung auf der Datenbremse: Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier (in DerStandard, 11.09.22)
Bürgerinnen und Bürger sollen mehr über den Staat erfahren (in DiePresse, 31.05.2021)
Covid-19-Daten: Stopp dem Herrschaftswissen! (in DerStandard, 22.12.2020)
Wie Pflegerinnen aus Osteuropa die Beschäftigung in Österreich erhöhen (in DiePresse, 23.11.2020)
Wie produktiv sind wir im Home-Office? (in DiePresse, 20.07.2020)